Barbara Pierce Bush, the daughter of former President George W. Bush and granddaughter of former President George H.W. Bush, has confirmed her help for Democratic nominee Kamala Harris within the 2024 presidential election.
In a Tuesday assertion to Individuals, the well being care activist acknowledged having spent a part of the weekend in Pennsylvania campaigning on behalf of Harris and vice presidential nominee Tim Walz.
“It was inspiring to join friends and meet voters with the Harris-Walz campaign in Pennsylvania this weekend,” she instructed the outlet. “I’m hopeful they’ll move our country forward and protect women’s rights.”
Regardless of her household’s historic ties to the Republican Celebration, Barbara Pierce Bush’s endorsement of Harris will not be more likely to come as a shock to these conversant in her current historical past.
In 2017, she spoke at a Deliberate Parenthood fundraiser in her residence state of Texas, noting that she’d anticipated Hillary Clinton would beat Donald Trump within the presidential election the earlier yr.
“In October when I was asked to speak, I said yes and I was thrilled, but I was under the assumption that history was going to go differently,” she stated, in line with The Texas Tribune. “That was not meant to be a political statement; I just thought the cards were going to fall in a different way. I’m so happy I said yes because this work could not matter more.”
In 2010, Barbara Pierce Bush and her sister, Jenna Bush Hager, instructed Individuals they didn’t establish as Republican or Democrat, and have since been described as independents.
George W. Bush and former first woman Laura Bush haven’t publicly shared how they plan to vote on this yr’s presidential election. Former Vice President Dick Cheney, nonetheless, confirmed final month that he plans to solid his vote for Harris.
